July 6, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Julia Grinerva
If you try typing the terms ‘homosexuality’ or ‘gay’ into Yandex News, Russia’s most widely-used search engine, no results will be displayed. Readers are given the impression that these themes do not exist in the country’s...
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May 12, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
An alarm signal is sounding from Italy. Media researchers there have analysed how misinformation and conspiracy theories spread via social networks, such as Facebook, much faster than news from more reliable sources. A team of researchers,...
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December 19, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Artan Fuga
Almost 100% of political news reported by Albanian public television (ATV) was based on public relations sources, or materials produced by government institutions and political parties, according to empirical research conducted during...
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July 28, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The only way to respond to the ever-speaking, often-misleading and hyper-reacting world of Internet propaganda, it appears, is to establish a fact-checking website. These sites are set up to challenge spam, propaganda, misinformation and...
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March 7, 2011 •
Public Relations •
by Marcello Foa
How many are dead? Were bombs really dropped? Is Al Qaeda involved? As in other wars, misinformation dominates the news. So how many people have been killed in Libya? One thousand, 2,000 … 10,000? And how many cities have fallen to the...
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